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1) Ring of fire
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 11
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen years ago, in order to win a contract in the Kingdom, a desperate defense contractor used a shell company to provide a bribe to a wealthy Saudi businessman. Now a powerful player in the defense industry, he panics when the Panama Papers burst onto the public scene. Providing insight into the illicit deeds of offshore financing, they could prove his undoing. To prevent the exposure of his illegal activities, he sets in motion a plan to interdict...
2) Ring of fire
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the life of country musician June Carter and her love affair with her husband Johnny Cash.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012
Language
English
Description
Over the many billions of years of the Earth's history our planet has never stopped changing shape. Massive tectonic forces have sculpted and re-sculpted our world in a never ending journey. Tectonics has created life - and destroyed it as well. Three tectonic collisions created Europe and continue to alter the continent's landscape. In this episode, we examine changes in Iceland and the Mediterranean Sea.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2009
Language
English
Description
Volcanoes both fascinate and frighten mankind. Often causing massive loss of life, they've been worshipped as gods, and feared as homes for the devil. They emit huge amounts of poison gas and ash, yet provide some of the most fertile land on Earth. In this Globe Trekker Special, travelers Megan McCormick, Ian Wright, Justine Shapiro, Alex Riley, and Sami Sabiti explore the world's most spectacular volcanoes, travelling from the heart of Europe, across...
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English
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The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 2004 is estimated to have released the energy of 23,000 atomic bombs, inundating coastal communities with tsunami waves up to 100 feet high. This program explains the undersea geologic forces that create tsunamis - and considers the possible consequences if a landslide-generated mega-tsunami were to strike the East Coast.
7) Rituals
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Pete heads home to Europe, where he discovers some surprising rituals and sects, including underground New Age temples in Italy and Shamans in Norway.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2008
Language
English
Description
Imagine exploring our planet's last great frontier, diving into the inky mysteries of uncharted depths, finding treasures and strange new life forms. In this video clip, meet geologist Dr. Cornel de Ronde on his quest to chart a newly discovered underwater landform known as the submarine arc volcano. This is a rare glimpse of what de Ronde says is "the coolest, sexiest place on earth," the Pacific ring of fire.
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Max is counting soda bottle caps, when Moon walks in and points out that he’s been drinking a LOT of soda lately. Max says he’s trying to collect 500 to participate in the soda company’s raffle to win the Robo-Captain 4000, a limited edition robot. Moon points out that this is a ploy by the soda company for people to spend more money on their soda. She says that Max has been living in a “fool’s paradise”, which is when someone is hopeful...
11) 1632
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"1632-- And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religious war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000-- Things are going okay in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. THEN, EVERYTHING...
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English
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In the late 1800s, Maggie Walker, an African American community leader, helped establish a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients, a community center, and an educational loan fund, among other humanitarian projects. She was also the first woman in the United States to become founder and president of a chartered bank.
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